Baba says, “There has to be full love for the Father.”

All Brahmin souls definitely have love for the Father; in fact, it is love that has brought about transformation in my life. But even so, Baba explains, there are three types of loving children. One is those who have love, the second is those who fulfill the responsibility of love and the third is of those who are merged in love. Those who have love, have love sometimes but while having love, their love is sometimes broken and sometimes connected. This is why from time to time, I have to make effort to reconnect my love again. But why is there love only sometimes? because along with the Father, I also have love for some people or for some instruments of matter. If there is the slightest trace of love in any other direction, even in my thoughts, then I come into the list of those who just have love for the Father.

The sign of love is that, without making any effort, my love automatically goes to the One I have love for. When I constantly have love, I experience the One that I love for to be my support in every situation and in every stage at every moment. Sometimes, my love is for certain facilities or for certain people and then, at that time, I experience those facilities or individuals to be greater support than even the Father. I do retain love for the Father in my thoughts and even think that the love of the Father is elevated but I also think that it is necessary to have the support of those facilities or those people. This is why my love is incomplete in both directions and I have to connect my love again and again.

Instead of having one strength and one support, I also find it essential to have the support of something else. Therefore, instead of experiencing all attainments by having love for the Father, I am attracted by some temporary attainment of other supports. I am attracted to them to such an extent that I consider them to be very essential. I don’t consider them to be an attachment, but a support. “No matter how good some child may be, you mustn’t become trapped in his name or form. It would cause a great deal of damage.”, explains Baba. Sometimes, it isn’t a facility or a person, but it is service. I feel validated when I am recognized for the service I do: ‘I have opened so many centers, taught the course to so many students etc. etc.’ If there is ever a period when I am not called for service, I lose all my peace and happiness, I feel I have lost my identity. “You must do service without attachment.“, teaches Baba. My identity is not based on what I do, it is based on who and whose I am. I am a pure soul, a child of God; that’s it. And so, such ones who have more supports than the one Father are known as those who just have love, explains Baba.

The second are those who fulfil the responsibility of love. Along with having love, I also have the power to fulfil the responsibility of that love, that is, to give a return for the love I have received. The return of love is to fulfil the elevated hopes that the Father has in me in a practical way. While I do this, I sometimes have the experience of being equal to the Father, that is, of being merged in love and sometimes I don’t. Those who fulfil the responsibility of love are close but not equal, explains Baba. Such children receive multi-millionfold courage, zeal and enthusiasm and special help from the Father in return. And I need this push from time to time- in the form of feedback that I did a good job somewhere, or in the form of a kind word from someone etc. When I receive this push, I start running again. The third are those who are merged in love. When I am such a soul, I constantly experience the company of the Father whom I love, in my eyes, on my lips, in my thoughts and in my actions easily and naturally. The Father is not separated from me and I am not separated from the Father. At every moment, as a return for my love, I remain full and content with all the attainments I have received from the Father. This is why no other support attracts me. I constantly experience being merged in love, and easily experience belonging to the one Father and none other.

“Now, ask yourself“, says the Father: “Which one am I? You do know yourself, don’t you?” You do have love and it is out of love that you are following this Brahmin life. However, as well as having love, you become numberwise in having the power to fulfill the responsibility of that love. As well as having love, power is also essential. Those who have a balance of both love and power become similar to the Father. Such souls who are merged in love experience it to be difficult to move away from the love of the Father. It is easy to be merged in love, but difficult to move away from that love, because the Father is the world of the souls who are merged in love. “While moving along don’t let go of the Seed and become attracted to the twigs and branches“, cautions Baba. It is easy to make others souls and facilities my support because the forms and color of the Seed is not that beautiful as the form and color of the twigs and branches. With souls and facilities, there is instant and visible gratification- applause, praise, badges, comfort, etc. They are things I can touch and see and hear. With the Father, everything is incognito. He teaches me that service is something I do without any desires. He teaches me not to expect respect but to keep giving it. And so when I am body conscious, the Father’s method doesn’t seem like fun. Even when I understand that it is not right, I go ahead and make people, facilities, service my supports. “It is said: The Lord is pleased with those who have honest hearts and so remember the one Father with a true heart“, says Baba. When I become body conscious, I think in my mind that I belong to the one Father and none other, I even repeat it to myself again and again, but, in my heart, I also think that I need some support in a physical way. This is when Maya seizes her chance. She transforms my intellect to such an extent that I experience a false support to be a real support.

“The Father and only the Father has to be the support of all relationships: you experience this to a lesser extent. Now increase your experience of having all relationships with Him.”, instructs the Father. It is because of my experiencing all relationships to a lesser extent that a temporary relationship is forged with someone or another. “Now, increase the experience of the Father being your physical support“, He teaches. Often I think that the Father is incorporeal and subtle and so He can only give me support in a subtle way but when I truly make the Father my world, then I can experience every relationship with Him in a physical way. “So understand this in depth and make yourself strong in this.“, He teaches. And making myself strong in this takes practice. Love for the Father doesn’t just happen or build up on its own, I have to nurture the relationship. While cooking, eating my meals, I have to practice staying in His company throughout, not just start the meal with Him, but eat the whole meal with Him. While going about my activities, my hands may be busy but my heart is connected with the Father; I am speaking to Him, churning His knowledge. I have to increase this practice and when I do, then people and facilities will not attract me toward them. I won’t look for my identity in service or badges. “Now increase your experience of using the facilities just for the sake of it, for service, as detached observers. Don’t make them your support, but use them for the sake of it. This is known as a soul who has full love for the Father, someone who is merged in love and equal.“, explains Baba.

“So think about it.“, He says: Who am I?